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Radio 3 in Concert RADIO 3, 9.00PM

 Tonight, the renowned harpsichordist and multiinstrumentalist Kristian Bezuidenhout takes up the baton and conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the City Halls in Glasgow. The programme is a rich combination of Mozart and a composer that he much admired: CPE Bach, JS Bach’s extrovert son, whose Symphony No 2 in E-flat is thrilling and wild. “Mozart is the most important musical figure in my life,” says Bezuidenhout, “there’s absolutely no question about that.” Fellow Mozart fans should be in good hands this evening, then.

The Essay: Minds at War RADIO 3, 10.45PM

 In the lead-up to Sunday (Armistice Day), each night this week The Essay focuses on a different cultural work depicting wartime, and explores its significance. Tonight, Dr Jane Potter of Oxford Brookes University discusses The Forbidden

Zone, a collection of vivid experiences and memories of life as a nurse at the front during the Great War. They were the work of Mary Borden, an Anglo-american novelist who spent four years working in a military hospital, describing field hospital medicine and the stories of men returning from battle.